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A popular question (answered) - here is a non exhaustive list of knowledge base articles that describes the official support position of Microsoft with regards to running enterprise applications on Microsoft’s own virtualization platform (namely Virtual Server 2005) and other third party offerings. Bottom line is that you must be confident and feel comfortable that your IT partner and/or virtualization vendor of choice (Microsoft, VMware, Virtuozzo, Xen, etc.) are able to support you all the way in a production environment.

Microsoft Virtual Server support policy
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897613

Windows Server System software not supported within a Microsoft Virtual Server environment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897614/

Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615

Support policy for Microsoft programs that are running in a third-party application or software redirection program or in a third-party application or software virtualization environment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924287

Considerations when hosting Active Directory domain controller in virtual hosting environments
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794

Support policy for Exchange Server 2003 running on hardware virtualization software
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320220

Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 do not support Virtual PC and Virtual Server for production environments
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909840

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